Brent Petersen, with the Brown County, Wis., Land & Water Conservation Department, overviews the Lower Fox Demonstration Farms Network. The "Fox Demo Farms" is a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) project involving six farmers that is designed to showcase and demonstrate leading edge conservation practices that improve Great Lakes water quality by reducing phosphorus from entering Green Bay and Lake Michigan.

Faced with highly erodible soils on Iowa farmland with multiple contours and 3 to 9 degree slopes, brothers Nick and Mike Hunter made a necessary decision to switch to no-till early in their young farming careers.

Risk management is the name of the game when it comes to growing dryland sorghum and corn, which both offer cropping alternatives "when and if" conditions are right, according to recent Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.

Conflicting news about the condition of the Ogallala aquifer is creating more confusion than ever, and the federal government’s own report card on its efforts to protect the aquifer don’t make the grade.

Presented and filmed August 3, 2009, at the Washington State University-Puyallup Farm Walk, Jeff Kallestad of the WSU Small Farms Program discusses riparian buffers using alternating plots of grass, Alder and Poplar as buffer zones.

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Holtwood, Pa., no-tiller Steve Groff no-tills pumpkins with this Monosem planter that includes Pequea’s Residue Slicers, which cut through rolled-down triticale and hairy vetch ahead of the row units. He no-tills pumpkins in 45-inch rows between Memorial Day and the end of June.

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